Yahoo! improves toolbar and bookmarks site

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yahoo! announced improvements to its yahoo! toolbar and yahoo! bookmarks website. the improvements will be available to users in the u.s., germany, and taiwan. the yahoo! toolbar will include improved bookmarks buttons, which can be used to retrieve and save bookmarks from any computer. relevant bookmarks can be quickly found using the “”search-suggest” feature. customization has also been improved with the yahoo! toolbar, which allows for custom toolbar buttons to be added.

the yahoo! bookmarks website has had a number of improvements in the way users can manage and find their bookmarks. bookmarks can now be recognized through thumbnails or organized into traditional folders. new “drag-and-drop” functionality also makes managing bookmarks easier. bookmarks can now also be shared with friends via e-mail or yahoo! messenger.

brian's opinion
i must admit i have never been a huge fan of toolbars. most of the popular software you download these days will install a toolbar if you are not careful to pay close attention to what the software is trying to install. it's for this reason you find some people with layer after layer of toolbars on their favorite web browser with no idea how they got there.

meanwhile, i don't have a problem with the idea of a bookmarks website. there's nothing worse than not being able to access some of your favorite settings when you are not on your own computer. well, losing your bookmarks when your hard drive crashes is worse.

it's not surprising that yahoo! made sure to include the ability to e-mail or send bookmarks to friends via yahoo! messenger. considering the success of social websites such as myspace, it seems every company is trying to include a social aspect to their applications and websites these days.

user comments 5 comment(s)

bookmarks(10:22am est thu oct 26 2006)i do not see the big deal with bookmarks, if you can not find the website again to bookmark it at work from home or visa versa, then why bother? also you can back up the favorites (if you like i could give the path to do so) so if you really need them pop them on a thumb drive (or if really desperate a floppy) and take them with you. – by vision

meh(4:23pm est thu oct 26 2006)some of the yahoo changes were annoying. when they revamped their page, the focus was defaulted to the search bar, then it defaulted somewhere else after about two seconds. when you tried to click and the search bar again, a neat add expanded above and pushed the thing further down the page. luckily, that was removed after a few weeks.

i can see where these new features would be considerably less annoying, and maybe even handy. i don't like add-on toolbars, though. i feel a little bit like i am being watched, and it decreases my viewing area.

i guess they have a target market, and i not always in it. such is life in a capitalistic market. – by wjciv

yahoo extension for yahoo photos(9:39am est sat oct 28 2006)how long was firefox 2 in beta, and yahoo still has no update to its yahoo photos upload tool. lame, get on the stick yahoo, and screw the toolbar crap.